On booke processors, gdb is seeing spurious SIGTRAPs when setting a
watchpoint.
user_disable_single_step() simply quits when the DAC is non-zero. It should
be clearing the DBCR0_IC and DBCR0_BT bits from the dbcr0 register and
TIF_SINGLESTEP from the thread flag.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <sha...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
index 9fa2c7d..ef14988 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -736,15 +736,16 @@ void user_disable_single_step(struct task_struct *task)
{
struct pt_regs *regs = task->thread.regs;
-
-#if defined(CONFIG_BOOKE)
- /* If DAC then do not single step, skip */
- if (task->thread.dabr)
- return;
-#endif
-
if (regs != NULL) {
-#if defined(CONFIG_40x) || defined(CONFIG_BOOKE)
+#if defined(CONFIG_BOOKE)
+ /* If DAC don't clear DBCRO_IDM or MSR_DE */
+ if (task->thread.dabr)
+ task->thread.dbcr0 &= ~(DBCR0_IC | DBCR0_BT);
+ else {
+ task->thread.dbcr0 &= ~(DBCR0_IC | DBCR0_BT |
DBCR0_IDM);
+ regs->msr &= ~MSR_DE;
+ }
+#elif defined(CONFIG_40x)
task->thread.dbcr0 &= ~(DBCR0_IC | DBCR0_BT | DBCR0_IDM);
regs->msr &= ~MSR_DE;
#else
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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